Bug 25566

Summary:	mediawiki new security issue fixed upstream in 1.31.4
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Sec team <security>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	andrewsfarm, herman.viaene, sysadmin-bugs, tmb
Version:	7	Keywords:	advisory, has_procedure, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA7-64-OK
Source RPM:	mediawiki-1.31.3-1.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2019-10-14 17:38:11 CEST

Upstream has announced version 1.31.4 on October 7:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000236.html

It fixes one security issue.

Updated packages uploaded for Mageia 7 and Cauldron.

Advisory:
========================

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability:

In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of
suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup (CVE-2019-16738).

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16738
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000236.html
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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mediawiki-1.31.4-1.mga7
mediawiki-mysql-1.31.4-1.mga7
mediawiki-pgsql-1.31.4-1.mga7
mediawiki-sqlite-1.31.4-1.mga7

from mediawiki-1.31.4-1.mga7.src.rpm

Comment 1 David Walser 2019-10-14 17:38:27 CEST

Testing procedure:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_procedure:Mediawiki

Keywords: (none) => has_procedure

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2019-10-14 17:41:53 CEST

Looks like there is an issue with the security fix...
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_31/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31

* Followup T230402, PermissionManager doesn't exist until 1.33, so fix the
	  backported patches to use User::isAllowed() instead.

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2019-10-14 17:44:49 CEST

And the fix:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW3c22347f55102536b050160dfa9b30c21018fc2c

Thomas Backlund 2019-10-14 18:24:45 CEST

Keywords: (none) => feedback

Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2019-10-16 19:49:02 CEST

1.31.5 got released to fix up the security fix, so its now building....

rpms list:

mediawiki-1.31.5-1.mga7
mediawiki-mysql-1.31.5-1.mga7
mediawiki-pgsql-1.31.5-1.mga7
mediawiki-sqlite-1.31.5-1.mga7

from mediawiki-1.31.5-1.mga7.src.rpm

Keywords: feedback => (none)
Summary: mediawiki new security issue fixed upstream in 1.31.4 => mediawiki new security issue fixed upstream in 1.31.5

Comment 5 David Walser 2019-10-16 20:38:14 CEST

Thanks Thomas!

Advisory:
========================

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability:

In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of
suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup (CVE-2019-16738).

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16738
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000236.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000238.html

Summary: mediawiki new security issue fixed upstream in 1.31.5 => mediawiki new security issue fixed upstream in 1.31.4

Comment 6 Herman Viaene 2019-10-21 20:51:29 CEST

MGA7-64 Plasma on Lenovo B50
No installation issues.
Followed procedure as in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_procedure:Mediawiki
using mysql and a robust password.
All works OK, wiki created.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK
CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Comment 7 Thomas Andrews 2019-10-22 02:13:40 CEST

Validating. Advisory in Comment 5.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

Thomas Backlund 2019-10-23 19:28:58 CEST

Keywords: (none) => advisory

Comment 8 Mageia Robot 2019-10-23 23:08:38 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0301.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED